This Day in History: 2023-02-15

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BAYERN MUNICH STEP UP (1965)

When the German Football Association decided to establish the Bundeshga as its nation-wide professional football league, Bayern Munich were uncharacteristically in second place in their regional league. Stung by his club’s failure to win promotion in the first year, chairman Wilhelm Neudecker drafted in the famed Yugoslavian coach Slatko Cajkovski to build a team that would go up. Enter Sepp Maier, Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller as the axis of a young team that stormed to the Bundeshga in 1965, the second year of the premier division’s life. From that point, Bayern Munich went on to become the league’s most successful club, winning the championship 13 times.

Sepp Maier was the goal keeper of the newly successful Bayern Munich team. He also kept goal for the West German national side.